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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Some Like It Hot

"Some Like It Hot" is a classic film.

It was also the anchor of my daughter's New Year's Eve Party.

She had four of her best friends over for a movie party and I was surprised to see that with various releases from this year, my daughter mixed in "Some Like It Hot."

The Marilyn Monroe film directed by Billy Wilder resulted in Marilyn receiving a Golden Globe nomination.

It also resulted in a classic film that still holds up to this day and, even being in black and white, still feels alive and of the moment.

If you've never seen it, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis are musicians in Chicago who witness a mob murder. They go on the run from the mob and end up in a girl band headed to Florida. Daphene and Josephine are the names of the two new 'girls.'

And Marilyn is Sugar who sings in the band and plays ukulele.

She wants to land a wealthy husband in Florida.

Instead she ends up falling for Tony Curtis pretending to be a millionaire.

The U.S. war against Iraq ended officially December 31, 2011, but it has
now metamorphosed into Washington’s air war against the Islamic State
(IS) in Iraq and Syria. There are increasing hints U.S. ground troops
may be sent in this year. (3,000 American military advisers are already
there and 1,500 allied troops are expected soon.)

Establish a US Commission on Truth and Reconciliation. America
was led into a war against Iraq, a war which killed over 1 million
innocent Iraqis, a war which was based on every manner of deceit. In our
name, and with our tax dollars, countless people were either killed,
injured or tortured, their homes ruined, the land destroyed. It is time
for Americans to know the truth about Iraq and other wars. Let us push
Congress and the President to create a US Commission on Truth and Reconciliation.

We
must require the highest level of accountability from those who have
held the highest positions in our government. Lies which took us into
war and established a national security state have separated us from
each other, and from the world. Let us reunite in the spirit of truth
and justice, seeking the moral high ground and a newer world.

Can Dennis just stop f**king around and lying.

There will not be -- in the next 20 years at least -- a US Commission on
Truth and Reconciliation. Why are you wasting people's time deceiving
them?

There are things to focus on and your nonsense is not one of them.

You want a Truth Commission? How about you tell the American people
about the flight you took with Barack? How about you explain how you
got on that plane insisting you were sticking to your guns and not
voting for ObamaCare but by the time you touched ground you were
breaking your public promise? Why don't you tell the American people
about that conversation?

It would be illuminating.

Not just to show the world self-serving you are, but to explain how politics in the US really work.

Dennis is a disgrace. I've always felt that way.

Now he's writing of Iraq as if the illegal war is over. That's offensive enough.

But he's lying to the American people as well. A decision was made to
go war on Iraq. That wasn't -- though Dennis loves to pretend otherwise
-- a decision of just Republicans or of just Republicans plus Hillary
Clinton.

It's not going to happen.

And this gets to the core of why I despise Dennis.

In 2004, in Boston, as he let down his supporters -- which really is the
constant thread in the public career of Dennis Kucinich -- a young
woman approached me crying, feeling he betrayed her and the rest and I
comforted by leading her (eventually) in a chant of "F**k Dennis
Kucinich!"

Dennis is never serious, Dennis is a con artist.

His runs in the Democrat parties presidential primaries -- which, let's
be clear, is not running for president, he's never run for president --
are fake.

They're an attempt to corral people into the Democratic Party (and keep
them from going to the Green Party or elsewhere). After his fake run,
Dennis gives his little fake ass speech, after denouncing the party,
urging his supporters to support the Democratic Party. He's a tiny
valve intended to release steam and frustration before all of us on the
left are supposed to join hands and march behind whomever the party's
decided gets the nomination.

In 2008, Barack Obama 'won' Iowa.

After the early round of the caucus, Dennis instructed his followers to take their support to Barack.

At what point does that little bitch plan to take accountability for that?

I believe Barack's actions in Libya were illegal. I called them out here.

Dennis did so on Fox News. But never took accountability for his role
in promoting Barack Obama and helping to make him the nominee for the
Democratic Party.

As Shi'ite forces push into
territories held by Islamic State, many Sunnis have fled for fear of
both the Shi’ite-led government and the Sunni jihadists. Shi'ite leaders insist Islamic State must never be allowed to strike them again, nor return to areas now abandoned. Shi'ite
groups now decide who can stay in a community and who should leave;
whose houses should be destroyed and whose can stand. In one case, a powerful Shi’ite paramilitary organization has started redrawing the geography of central Iraq, building a road between Shi’ite parts of Diyala province and Samarra, a Sunni city that is home to a Shi’ite shrine.

You can summarize the above as Shi'ites clear out an area of the Islamic State and then purge the Sunni elements as well.

The man's a loon. Read his September 2012 post for laughs.
He's being 'punished' and 'stalked' by the police in his country
because . . . he took photos. He didn't understand it was a crime, he
writes, before making a xenophobic remark about the Japanese. But
Reider was done with his country. He moved to England. But the
Norwegian police followed him there as well! And continued to harass
him. So he went to the US and, "The Norwegians came after me to the
United States as well. Easily recognisable officers of the organised
crime unit within the Oslo police even followed me into research
libraries where they deliberately sat next to me and made noise in order
to disturb my work on Iraq."Yeah, watch out, in US libraries, for those Norwegian police crime units.

It needs to be noted, and it has been repeatedly here, Reider and Joel Wing and all the little Circle Jerk buddies?

They weren't telling truths.

They were lying.

They were pimping for Nouri al-Maliki -- a thug. They were passing him off as a leader.

He led Iraq, alright, into the brink of destruction.

For all those just so amazed at the violence today in Iraq, so surprised
by it, let's drop back for more of the June 2013 entry where we noted
crazy Reider:

AFP's gotta be the dumbest and trashiest in the secretarial pool as evidenced by their latest nonsense.
Nouri's gone on state TV (which he controls) to say what's happening in
Syria is causing sectarian strife in Iraq. Who knew AFP was also Iraqi
state TV?

It must be because all it can do is present his comments in a vacuum, as if to exonerate his own actions and convict the Iraqis.

The most obvious point to make re: Syria is that, if true (it's not),
how interesting that Nouri chose not to side with the west on the issue.

What goes on in Syria is not why there is sectarian strife in Iraq.

AFP fails at their job repeatedly acting as a megaphone for whomever's
in power. In this case, we're dealing with a paranoid tyrant. AFP
sends their stenography out over the wires and, in doing so, does
tremendous damage. The press is supposed to be a watchodg not a
stenographer.

This is the week that saw Nouri (illegally) kick Kurds out of the
Cabinet. For the record, the sectarian strife Nouri's alarmed about at
this second is Sunni v. Shi'ite. But it takes a lot of never when you
conduct your war on the Kurds to, in the same week, insist others are
playing sectarian games. Nouri's always been enabled by a slovenly and
unprofessional western press.

In 2010, Nouri agreed to the US-brokered Erbil Agreement.

Now Nouri's a known liar who's failed to keep every promise he's made in
his first and second term. For those who missed Nouri's first broken
promise, he was out of Iraq at the time, and only a few months into
being prime minister, when the US began putting up blast walls and
barricades throughout Baghdad. An enraged Nouri insisted they were
coming down immediately as soon as he returned to Iraq, he even used the
words "promise" in the statement. Of course, Nouri returned and the
walls stayed up. Add "being Joshua with the rams horns outside the
walls of Jericho" to a list of the many things Nouri has tried to be but
instead failed miserably at.

Nouri only agreed to it because he wanted a second term as prime
minister and he never planned to honor it. Other political blocs
thought it was for real -- because the US government brokered it and
vouched for it -- and signed on. If Nouri's having trouble and you're
an outlet reporting today, you can't ignore The Erbil Agreement. Since
the summer of 2011, Iraqiya (who won in the 2010 elections), the Kurds
(Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, KRG President Massoud Barzani, etc) and
clric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr have been demanding that
Nouri stop postponing and implement The Erbil Agreement as he was
supposed to at the end of 2010.

Nouri's failure to implement the contract has disenfranchised many.
When a people stop believing that their voices are listened to, they
find means other than conversation to make their points. What's
happening isn't surprising unless you're a stenographer for AFP. You
sort of picture Prahsant Rao and Reider Visser lunching on plain yogurt
and lamenting how their thunder thighs will look next weekend in their
bridesmaids dresses.

That's how Iraq arrived at where it is today.

A lot of liars.

Over the last few years, a lot of e-mails have come in lamenting tone an language.

To which I say, you can eat my _____.

Honestly, tone?

You're bothered by the tone?

People are dying and you're bothered
that I'm angry that a country supposedly 'liberated' has instead been
trashed, decimated and poisoned?

As for language?

I've repeatedly noted that I have a very foul mouth. We are work place
friendly. Which means we are limited to 'swear' words we can use. My
favorite word is four letters long and starts with an "s," ends with a
"t" and waves hello via "hi" in the middle. I can't use that word here.

I can use "whore" and Media Whores Online pioneered calling out the whores. I wish MWO was still around.

But if you can't grasp how much lying and whoring has taken place on Iraq in the last six years, let's note this:

At that point, at that late date, you're not just 'wrong,' you're
whoring because you're deliberately wrong. (Fordham was deliberately
wrong on other details and we noted in that snapshot.)

Does it matter?

Does any of it matter?

It has to.

Because it's life or death.

If Alice Fordham had done actual reporting, if Joel Wing and Crazy
Reider hadn't whored for thug Nouri, Iraq might not be where it is now,
where it is today.

Violence had dropped off.

The government in place was imposed by the US government so, political
science would argue, there was always a chance of renewed violence when
the bulk of US forces left the country.

So violence could very well have increased. It could have even gotten worse than it is now.

But what bred the violence was Nouri al-Maliki.

And what allowed him to breed the violence was a world that largely
looked away, a press that near universally hid the truth -- western
press, excuse me -- about what Nouri was doing.

This is a man so hateful that he sent agents of the Ministry of the
Interior into Iraqi schools to target gay and thought to be gay men, to
stir up hate against these men, to tell the students that these men
would kill them, that these men drink blood, etc. And not just tell the
students that.

See, here's what got Nouri in trouble, they had a handout.

When reports first emerged -- in the Iraqi media, please no western
outlet touched it -- Nouri's spokesperson insisted the actions of the
Ministry were being distorted and nothing of the sort happened.

But there was the handout.

And when Alsumaria and Al Mada got a hold of the handout, Nouri's story
suddenly changed from it didn't happen to oops how did this happen.

This is how evil Nouri al-Maliki is.

He deliberately attempted to frighten children of gay men and encouraged them to attack and kill gay men.

It was there in the presentation and, too bad for Nouri, it was there in the handout.

He was evil.

That's only one example.

But this is the man that press carried water for. This is the thug that
Joel Wing and Crazy Reider portayed as respectable and a real leader.

People need to be held accountable for what they do.

And if that means I have to be the biggest bitch online day after day,
then that's what it means for however long this site continues.

There are a lot of people willing to prop up thugs like Nouri.

The last six years hasn't seen a lot of attempts -- outside of the Iraqi press -- to defend the people of Iraq.

Yet, while the oppressive Middle Eastern regimes subjugated their
citizens, especially the minorities, the global players kept a blind eye
on the brutality, often supporting and arming the oppressors. A prime
example is the Obama administration's support of the former Iraqi Prime
Minister, Nuri Maliki, in spite of his dictatorial and marginalizing
policies, which ultimately allowed the Sunni regions to turn into
breeding grounds for ISIS.

And that's what all the whoring did.

It allowed the White House to support Nouri.

A thug. Someone who killed protesters. Someone I believe had a
journalist killed (Hadi al-Mahdi). He certainly had Hadi and other
journalists tortured.

This is the thug that when the bulk of US forces departed Iraq, turned
Iraq's military tanks onto his political rivals. And Liz Sly reported
on it for western media (Washington Post) but people had other things to
do apparently.

So let's not pretend that the Islamic State popped up out of the middle of nowhere and for no reason.

A lot of whoring allowed the despot Nouri al-Maliki to get away with, yes, murder.

And the response to that can be seen in Iraq today.

From time to time, a friend will say to me that they can't believe I
called out _____ -- a mutual friend. Of course I did. The hurt
feelings of a friend don't begin to equal the suffering of the Iraqi
people Those whose actions encourage and prolong the suffering of the
Iraqi people probably deserve a little more than hurt feelings over
getting roughed up verbally in the global town square that is the
internet.

And maybe instead of whimpering and whining, they could take accountability for their part in increasing violence in Iraq?

About Me

I'm a black working mother. I love to laugh and between work and raising kids, I need a good laugh. I'm also a community member of The Common Ills. Shout outs to any Common Ills community members stopping by. Big shout out to C.I. for all the help getting this started. I am not married to Thomas Friedman, credit me with better taste, please. This site is a parody.